{"id":2554,"date":"2013-11-13T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:18:01","slug":"word-reaches-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/word-reaches-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Reaches Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Alice Walker<\/p>\n<p>Word reaches us<br \/>\nthat you are sleeping, sleeping.<br \/>\nDismayed<br \/>\nwe have turned to the sea.<br \/>\nWe encounter among others<br \/>\nwalking there<br \/>\na sense of what we have lost:<br \/>\nthe broad expanse of humanity\u2019s<br \/>\nsensitivity to the oneness of itself.<br \/>\nGabrielle,<br \/>\nwhile you sleep, resting your nimble<br \/>\nbrain, we think of walking with you<br \/>\nin the valley<br \/>\nof the shadow of death; holding<br \/>\nyou up.<br \/>\nWe hope you can feel our grief;<br \/>\nour sorrow vast<br \/>\nlike the ocean that draws us.<br \/>\nWe know in this moment you teach us many things:<br \/>\nhow all across the world<br \/>\nthere is no one who deserves this fate.<br \/>\nWe know we must bleach and sterilize our<br \/>\ntongues,<br \/>\nbrighten with understanding<br \/>\nall our dark thoughts.<br \/>\nSister, whom I never met<br \/>\nexcept in this pain that has so<br \/>\nwounded you<br \/>\nthank you for reminding us<br \/>\nthrough your suffering<br \/>\nand your suspenseful sleep<br \/>\nthat we must change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on November 3, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alice Walker Word reaches us that you are sleeping, sleeping. Dismayed we have turned to the sea. We encounter among others walking there a sense of what we have lost: the broad expanse of humanity\u2019s sensitivity to the oneness of itself. Gabrielle, while you sleep, resting your nimble brain, we think of walking with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}